By David Crystal

New from Cambridge University Press!

By Peter Mark Roget

This book "supplies a vocabulary of English words and idiomatic phrases 'arranged … according to the ideas which they express'. The thesaurus, continually expanded and updated, has always remained in print, but this reissued first edition shows the impressive breadth of Roget's own knowledge and interests."

Book Information

The Handbook of Pragmatics aims to provide easy access for scholars withwidely divergent backgrounds, but with convergent interests in the use andfunctioning of language to the different topics, traditions and methodswhich together make up the field of Pragmatics, broadly conceived as thecognitive, social and cultural study of language and communication. TheHandbook of Pragmatics will be an annually updated publication. The mainbody of the Handbook will be produced in loose-leaf format in a handsome3-ring binder and is preceded by a bound Manual which contains adescriptive catalogue of all the major traditions and methods related toPragmatics. The Manual was written by over 100 contributors. Within thesubsequent five years, the loose-leaf Handbook will provide descriptions ofall central topics and concepts in Pragmatics. After this phase, theHandbook will continue to be expanded and updated annually. The project isthus a state-of-the-art source book for researchers.The Handbook ofPragmatics is one of the major tools of the International PragmaticsAssociation to achieve its goals: of disseminating knowledge aboutpragmatic aspects of language; of stimulating various fields of applicationby making this knowledge accessible and revealing different points of viewand various methodologies; of finding, in the process, a significant degreeof coherence.